upgrade card video agp
By maurino75
@maurino75 (59)
Italy
April 8, 2008 9:49am CST
I wanna buy a new video card for my obsolete sistem whit atlhon xp 2600+ barton. What is the best video card AGP that i can buy? tanks
3 responses
@bayernfan (1430)
• Canada
8 Apr 08
maurino75, it would help a lot if you let us know a little bit more about your system. What motherboard are you using? What size and speed RAM are you using? What model and speed hard drive do you use? Do you plan to overclock your system? Because your system is older, the other components are likely to be where the bottlenecks will occur and, therefore, the limiting factors. A Radeon HD 3850 512MB AGP is a great card, but probably overkill for your system, because the CPU, as well as other components, will limit you ability take advantage of that video cards full capabilities. Let us know more about your system, and we will be able to advise the best solution for you at the cheapest cost overall.
@maurino75 (59)
• Italy
9 Apr 08
My pc configuration is
Matherboard:Asus a7v8x-x
CPU:AMD Atlhon xp 2600+ core Barton
Video card: Ati Radeon 9200 SE (128 MB)
clock GPU 200 MHz
clock RAMDAC 400 MHz
RAM: 256+256 MB DDR400(PC 3200)
Timing 2.5-3-3-8
For overclock i can modify FSB and moltiplicator for default is 166 MHz x 11.5 = 1909 MHz
The RAM work at 166 x 2 = 333 (as PC2700)and timing 2.5-5-4-9
Voltage core is 1.66 V and temp. of CPU is 46°C
I wanna change RAM and Video Card
I hope that my description is clear and tanks for help.
@bayernfan (1430)
• Canada
10 Apr 08
angelvoyagera, don't assume that everyone is using RAM that is capable of making full use out of their CPU's FSB speed or that their RAM speed isn't more capable than their CPU's FSB speed. Assumptions are a mug's game and should be avoided.
assume = a$$ + u + me
maurino75, your CPU and RAM are definitely going to be bottlenecks, furthermore the Asus A7V8X-X uses the KT400 chipset and it wasn't the best overclocker. A Radeon HD 2600 Pro will be more than enough for you and it will be less than half the cost of the HD 3850. Any of the newer games will only be playable on your system at low resolutions and with AA and AF settings turned off regardless of which graphics card that you choose to purchase. I hope this helps and good luck with your purchase.
@Esoteric1 (863)
• Canada
8 Apr 08
yea just go for a card like an nvidia 5500 oc 256mb from bfg or something like that would be cheap too maybe 50$ brand new.
@vicky30 (4766)
• India
8 Apr 08
you could buy a graphic card with memory of 256mb.the companies are geforce or nvidia.
